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The lowest point is the Niger River, with an elevation of 200 meters .
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The highest point is Mont Idoukal-n-Taghès in the Aïr Mountains at 2022 meters .
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Lowest point: Niger River at Nigeria border, Dosso Region: 200 meters
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It includes the construction of 574 kilometers new railway from Niamey to connect to the existing line in Parakou (Benin).
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Nigeria is located in western Africa on the Gulf of Guinea and has a total area of 923768 sqkm , making it the world's 32nd-largest country.
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Its coastline is at least 853 kilometers .
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The highest point in Nigeria is Chappal Waddi at 2419 meters .
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In the Sahel region, rain is less than 20 inches per year and the Sahara Desert is encroaching.
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The annual rainfall received in this region is very high, usually above the 2000 mm rainfall totals giving for tropical rainforest climates worldwide.
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Over 4000 mm of rainfall is received in the coastal region of Nigeria around the Niger delta area.
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Bonny town found in the coastal region of the Niger delta area in southern Nigeria receives well over 4000 mm of rainfall annually.
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The rest of the southeast receives between 2,000 and 3000 mm of rain per year.
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Temperatures are above 18 Coulomb throughout the year.
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The rest of the year is hot and dry with temperatures climbing as high as 40 °C .
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Highlands with the alpine climate in Nigeria, are well over 1520 meters above sea level.
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Temperatures can climb as high as 35 °C over west Africa during this time.
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Temperatures in the northern part of Nigeria can go as high as 48 °C in cities like Maiduguri.
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But with the withdrawal of this wind around March to April following the onset of the rainy season, temperatures can go as high as 44 °C in some parts of Nigeria.
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Semi temperate weather conditions prevail on the highlands in central Nigeria above 1200 meters above sea level, namely the Jos Plateau.
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Nigeria is one of the most densely populated countries in Africa, with approximately 200 million people in an area of 920000 sqkm , and is also the country with the largest population in Africa and the seventh largest population in the world.
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The United States Department of the Interior cites a landmass of 183 sqmi .
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The volcano on Agrihan, Mount Agrihan, has the highest elevation at 3166 feet .
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Anatahan Volcano is a small volcanic island 80 miles north of Saipan.
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The islands total 179 sqmi .
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16 sqmi
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3166 feet
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18 sqmi
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1900 feet
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1 sqmi
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1801 feet
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2 sqmi
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515 feet
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179 sqmi
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3166 feet
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The volcano on Agrihan has the highest elevation at 3166 feet .
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Anatahan Volcano is a small volcanic island 80 miles north of Saipan.
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On April 6, 2005, approximately 50000 meters cube of ash and rock were ejected, causing a large, black cloud to drift south over Saipan and Tinian.
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At the 2016 Australian census, it had 1,748 inhabitants living on a total area of about 35 sqkm .
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text=Norfolk Island is the main island in a group comprising the Australian external territory of Norfolk Island, situated in the Pacific Ocean between Australia and New Zealand approximately 692 kilometers south of New Caledonia.
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Next year, he obtained and cultivated a grant of 60 acres on the island.
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The island's highest point is Mount Bates reaching 319 meters above sea level, located in the northwest quadrant of the island.
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Phillip Island, the second largest island of the territory, is located at Coord, 7 kilometers south of the main island.
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Average annual precipitation is 1328 mm , with most rain falling from April to August.
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Norfolk Island is part of the Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia region "Pacific Subtropical Islands" (PSI), and forms subregion PSI02, with an area of 3908 hectares .
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Only one small tract, 5 sqkm , of rainforest remains, which was declared as the Norfolk Island National Park in 1986.
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The Niger River ( ; , ) is the principal river of West Africa, extending about 4180 kilometers .
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Its drainage basin is 2117700 sqkm in area.
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The Niger Delta, pouring into the Atlantic through mangrove swamps and thousands of distributaries along more than 100 miles , was thought to be no more than coastal wetlands.
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Mining & Scientific Press, "Electrical Progress" Nikola Tesla Is Credited With Statement", 11 April 1896 Seeming to borrow from a common idea at the time that the Earth's atmosphere was conductive, he proposed a system composed of balloons suspending, transmitting, and receiving, electrodes in the air above 30000 feet ...
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The 7 meters long arcs were not part of the normal operation, but only produced for effect by rapidly cycling the power switch.
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There, he conducted experiments with a large coil operating in the megavolts range, producing artificial lightning (and thunder) consisting of millions of volts and discharges of up to 135 feet in length, Gillispie, Charles Coulston, "Dictionary of Scientific Biography;" Tesla, Nikola.
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In March 1901, he obtained $150,000 ($ in today's dollarsUS) from J. Pierpont Morgan in return for a 51% share of any generated wireless patents, and began planning the Wardenclyffe Tower facility to be built in Shoreham, New York, 100 miles east of the city on the North Shore of Long Island.
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The tower was erected to its full height of 187 feet .
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On his 50th birthday, in 1906, Tesla demonstrated a 200 horsepower 16,000 rpm bladeless turbine.
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The city lies on the River Athi in the southern part of the country, and has an elevation of 1795 meters above sea level.
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According to the 2019 census, in the administrative area of Nairobi, 4,397,073 inhabitants lived within 696 sqkm .
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The city is situated at Coord and Coord and occupies 696 sqkm .
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Nairobi's western suburbs stretch all the way from the Kenyatta National Hospital in the south to the UN headquarters at Gigiri suburb in the north, a distance of about 20 kilometers .
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The mean maximum temperature for this period is 24 Coulomb .
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Two areas outside of the Central Business District area that are seeing a growth in companies and office space are Upper Hill, which is located, approximately 4 kilometers from the Central Business District and Westlands, which is also about the same distance, away from the city centre.
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314 meters
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100 meters
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Matatus are now limited to 80 kmph .
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However, many of the matatu vehicles have had their speed governors disabled, which is evident by them travelling at speeds well over 80 kmph .
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The most notable development is Greenpark, at Athi River, Machakos County 25 kilometers from Nairobi's Central Business District.
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Its area is 93 sqkm and the capital is Charlestown.
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Saint Kitts and Nevis are separated by a shallow 3 kilometers channel known as "The Narrows".
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The gently-sloping coastal plain ( 1.0 kilometers wide) has natural freshwater springs as well as non-potable volcanic hot springs, especially along the western coast.
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Nevis Peak ( 985 meters is the dormant remnant of one of these ancient stratovolcanoes.
985
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Due to extreme land erosion, the topsoil was swept away, and in some places at the coast, sheer cliffs as high as 25 meters have developed.
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In April 1866, three crates of nitroglycerin were shipped to California for the Central Pacific Railroad, which planned to experiment with it as a blasting explosive to expedite the construction of the 1659 feet Summit Tunnel through the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
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A large cordite factory was also built in Canada during World War I. The Canadian Explosives Limited cordite factory at Nobel, Ontario, was designed to produce 1500000 pounds of cordite per month, requiring about 286 tonnes of nitroglycerin per month.
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A serious problem in the use of nitroglycerin results from its high freezing point of 13 Coulomb .
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For example, a mixture of nitroglycerin and ethylene glycol dinitrate freezes at -29.0 Coulomb .
-29
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The heat liberated raises the temperature to about 5000 Coulomb .
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The nitrator is cooled with cold water or some other coolant mixture and maintained throughout the glycerin addition at about 22 Coulomb , much below which the esterification occurs too slowly to be useful.
22
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If the temperature of the charge exceeds about 30 Coulomb (actual value varying by country) or brown fumes are seen in the nitrator's vent, then it is immediately drowned.
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Nereid is third-largest of Neptune's satellites, and has an average radius of about 178 kilometers .
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The only spacecraft to visit Nereid was Voyager 2, which passed it at a distance of 4700000 kilometers between 20 April and 19 August 1989.
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A 4 meters -radius semi-circular "shooting circle" is an area at each end of the court.
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When defending a pass or shot players must be at least 90 cms away from the player with the ball.
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The goal posts are 2 meters high, and a smaller ball is used.
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mouth_location = 70 kilometers downstream from Iquitos, Loreto Region, Peru
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The total length is 1075 kilometers .
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The river drains an area of 100518 sqkm .
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The mean annual discharge is 6976 meters cube per second.
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From the Amazon the Napo is navigable for river craft up to its Curaray branch, a distance of about 216 miles , and perhaps a bit further; thence, by painful canoe navigation, its upper waters may be ascended as far as Santa Rosa, the usual point of embarkation for any venturesome traveller who descends from the Quito ...
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Captain Archibald Butt USN, ascended it 195 miles , to near its source.
195
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The initial US Congress mandate to NASA of cataloging at least 90% of NEOs that are at least 1.0 kilometers in diameter, which could cause a global catastrophe, had been met by 2011.
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Objects that cannot approach closer to the Earth (i.e. MOID) than , or are smaller than about 140 meters in diameter (i.e. H = 22.0 with assumed albedo of 14%), are not considered PHAs.
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On December 24, 2004, 370 meters asteroid 99942 Apophis (at the time known by its provisional designation 2004 MN) was assigned a 4 on the Torino scale, the highest rating ever given, as there was a 2.7% chance of Earth impact on Friday, April 13, 2029.
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At only 7 meters across, the asteroid however is much too small to be considered a Potentially Hazardous Asteroid and poses no serious threat: the possible 2095 impact therefore rates only −3.32 on the Palermo Scale.
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In 1998, the United States Congress gave NASA a mandate to detect 90% of near-earth asteroids over 1.0 kilometers diameter (that threaten global devastation) by 2008.
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In 2005, the original USA Spaceguard mandate was extended by the George E. Brown, Jr. Near-Earth Object Survey Act, which calls for NASA to detect 90% of NEOs with diameters of 140 meters or greater, by 2020.
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1036 Ganymed is about 35 kilometers in diameter.
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The smallest known near-Earth asteroid is 2008 TS with an absolute magnitude of 33.2, corresponding to an estimated diameter of about 1.0 meters .
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The largest such object is 1036 Ganymed, with an absolute magnitude of 9.45 and a directly measured diameter of about 38 kilometers .
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The most-studied and, at about 5 kilometers , largest is 3753 Cruithne, which travels along bean-shaped annual loops and completes its horseshoe libration cycle every 770 to 780 years.
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According to simulations, temporary satellites are typically caught when they pass the L1 or L2 Lagrangian points, and Earth has at least one temporary satellite 1.0 meters across at any given time, but they are too faint to detect by current surveys.
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A previously unknown 20 meters asteroid exploded near this Russian city with the equivalent blast yield of 400–500 kilotons.
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